Area of effect: Line and No Range

[kefkakrazy]

I was wondering about AOE: Line attacks. One of my PCs has an attack based almost totally off the Firebolt attack described on the sidebar of 248 5ER. When you're dealing with no-range Line AOEs, does the line have to trace in a straight line out from the PC?
The reason I'm asking is that I noticed that, with hexes, in order to have a straight "clean" line of hexes you have only six directions you can fire in, and that feels kind of artificial. So:
Can Line AOE attacks be fired in directions other than the six sides of the hex the PC is standing on? For Cones, it says that the cone has to "point" to the PC unless it's an Indirect attack-that's why I'm asking, to see if the same thing would apply here.
I found it extremely awkward for the PC to have to make a Half Move just to position themselves to hit an enemy with one of the six "clean" lines that radiate out from a hex on a regular hex sheet.

[Steve Long]

You've brought up just one of many reasons why I am getting rid of measuring anything in "hexes" in 6E. ;)

In the situation where a character's orientation doesn't match the hex grid on your map, just measure what the AoE: Line would cover and apply that using ordinary measurement methods. The Line would be 1" (6.5 feet, probably rounded down to 6 for convenience) wide and X" long (X being defined by what he paid for). Just measure that out with a ruler or something.